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John Flaxman (1755 - 1826), sculptor
Bas relief, ‘The Golden Age’
Plaster
Height: 18cm
Width: 23.5cm
Depth: 2.5cm
Width: 23.5cm
Depth: 2.5cm
Museum number: SC45
Curatorial note
A page from a sketchbook with studies n Flaxman's hand for the pair of panels of 'The Golden Age' and 'The Silver Age' is in the collection of the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, accession no. 1982.219. Their catalogue dates the sketches to c.1825 (see L. Eitner, B.G. Fryberger, C.M. Osborne, The Drawing Collection, Stanford, 1993, p.377, no. 587).
Literature
Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003
Associated objects
SC47, pair
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